Cray XT-3 Ships

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Cray XT-3 Ships 260

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @03:32AM from the and-they-mean-ships dept.

anzha writes "Cray's XT-3 has shipped. Using AMD's Opteron processor, it scales to a total of 30,580 CPUs. The starting price is $2 million for a 200 processor system. One of its strongest advantages over the std linux cluster is that it has an excellent interconnect built by Cray. Sandia National Labs and Oak Ridge National Labs are among the very first customers. Read more here."

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imagine a... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @03:35AM (#10629026)

single node of those.

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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @03:35AM (#10629028)

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I'll pass for now. (Score:4, Funny)

by mrjb ( 547783 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @03:37AM (#10629033)

This is only the XT-3. I'll wait for the Pentium-3-4.

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we're getting closer... (Score:5, Funny)

by nilbog ( 732352 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @03:37AM (#10629035) Homepage Journal

A few more years of advances like this and we might have a machine capable of running Longhorn!

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$2 million for a computer? (Score:3, Funny)

by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @03:37AM (#10629036)

It better have a lot of good games. How many mouse buttons does it have?
I can't believe people complain about the price of iMacs....

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Re:we're getting closer... (Score:3, Funny)

by metlin ( 258108 ) * writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @03:51AM (#10629094) Journal

Ahh, now that's what I call an optimist.

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The first test of the new Cray (Score:3, Funny)

by teamhasnoi ( 554944 ) writes: <teamhasnoi AT yahoo DOT com> on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @04:02AM (#10629119) Journal

they simulated a woman who posts to Slashdot and is waiting for her Centris running PearPC on Debian to boot OS X.
Strangely, it took roughly a week. The second test was a simulation of the moderation results of this post.
It received a +5 Funny, which puzzled researchers, as it is currently modded -1 Offtopic.
Damn you Schroedinger!

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Re:we're getting closer... (Score:3, Funny)

by NanoGator ( 522640 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @04:05AM (#10629128) Homepage Journal

"A few more years of advances like this and we might have a machine capable of running Longhorn!"

A few more years of computer advances and this joke will still be modded funny!

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Re:I'll pass for now. (Score:2, Funny)

by Pleione ( 825378 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @04:08AM (#10629136)

Don't you mean "AT/ATX"?

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Not even trying... (Score:1, Funny)

by F'Nok ( 226987 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @04:26AM (#10629193)

Using AMD's Opteron processor, it scales to a total of 30,580 CPUs.

They must be in a rush to market... Clearly the target was to have 32,768 CPU's.

I mean, what the hell am I going to do with only 30,580 CPU's?!

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Re:My new dream toy (Score:4, Funny)

by Guppy06 ( 410832 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @05:06AM (#10629297)

Maybe if you included promises of free iPods...

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Re:cray (Score:3, Funny)

by Fred_A ( 10934 ) writes: <fred@f r e d s h o m e . o rg> on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @05:52AM (#10629389) Homepage

It seems to be really lacking in the blinkenlight department though.

What good is a supercomputer without blinkenlights ? They just don't make them like they used to...

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Re:Just the name brings back memories (Score:2, Funny)

by LiquidCoooled ( 634315 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @05:59AM (#10629407) Homepage Journal

There are two prominent applications for these machines.

Wrong! There is a third, more used application: Solitare.

Even super computer coders have to wait for results.

I also asked this recently, but didn't get a reasonable answer, do these beasts have screen savers? if so, Are they just blackout type, or busy 3d rendered whizbang super cool ones "Just because we can"?

(I realise you may not be able to answer that, but someone might)

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Re:$2 million for a computer? (Score:3, Funny)

by Klar ( 522420 ) * writes: <curchin@gmail . c om> on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @06:18AM (#10629447) Homepage Journal

How many mouse buttons does it have?
Please.. it doesn't have any.. it just *knows* what you want to do before you *know* what you want to do..

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Re:So......the cost compared to? (Score:3, Funny)

by ozbird ( 127571 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @06:29AM (#10629468)

There's not a lot to compare. We're talking apples and oranges.

No, we're talking Apples and Crays... Didn't you read the post before replying? ;-)

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Re:scary thought (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @06:41AM (#10629487)

how would you accelerate the aging of a warhead?

Just give it a couple of little baby warheads to look after.

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Re:How big is it? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @06:50AM (#10629513)

Dimensions (cabinet): H 80.50 in. (2045 mm)
Wow... for the first time in my life, I couldn't picture 80 inches, but I could 2 meters. I think there may be hope in the metric system afterall.

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700kgs, 75dB and 14kW... (Score:4, Funny)

by Alkonaut ( 604183 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @07:09AM (#10629556)

...Sadly I think that beats my Volkswagen on all three

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What?? no usb? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @07:17AM (#10629582)

Where do i plug my 128 usb pendrive to store
results from my computations... :)

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Finally ... (Score:2, Funny)

by Zurd3 ( 574979 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @07:29AM (#10629616)

We'll be able now to install Gentoo in just a few days !

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Re:Just the name brings back memories (Score:3, Funny)

by capmilk ( 604826 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @07:57AM (#10629694)

During the times of no activity what does it do?
It creates random noise that is then fed into the Seti project so our computers have something to do in times without activity.

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Yeah, it's gotta be awful (Score:2, Funny)

by thegnu ( 557446 ) writes: <thegnu.gmail@com> on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @08:24AM (#10629767) Journal

Last time I bought a Cray super-computer, I was kicking myself for weeks about the 2 million dollars I wasted.

Next time, I'm just gonna build a beowulf cluster out of 200 overclocked AMD Barton 2500s. I shall NOT be suckered again!

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Re:Yeah, it's gotta be awful (Score:3, Funny)

by minus9 ( 106327 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @09:29AM (#10630151) Homepage

I've got a bag full of thinnet coax you can have, complete with T pieces, you might have to find your own terminators though.

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Re:Just the name brings back memories (Score:3, Funny)

by droleary ( 47999 ) writes: on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @10:30AM (#10630637) Homepage

There are two prominent applications for these machines. The first is nuclear weapons simulation. Personally, I don't see the point to that.

Well, when you nuke the site from orbit, you do want to be sure don't you?

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imagine a... (Score:5, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)

I'll pass for now. (Score:4, Funny)

we're getting closer... (Score:5, Funny)

$2 million for a computer? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:we're getting closer... (Score:3, Funny)

The first test of the new Cray (Score:3, Funny)

Re:we're getting closer... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I'll pass for now. (Score:2, Funny)

Not even trying... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:My new dream toy (Score:4, Funny)

Re:cray (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Just the name brings back memories (Score:2, Funny)

Re:$2 million for a computer? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:So......the cost compared to? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:scary thought (Score:1, Funny)

Re:How big is it? (Score:2, Funny)

700kgs, 75dB and 14kW... (Score:4, Funny)

What?? no usb? (Score:1, Funny)

Finally ... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Just the name brings back memories (Score:3, Funny)

Yeah, it's gotta be awful (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Yeah, it's gotta be awful (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Just the name brings back memories (Score:3, Funny)

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